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An ex-Yahoo! employee has pleaded guilty to misusing his access at the company to hack into the accounts of nearly 6,000 Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexually explicit images and videos.
According to an press note … Continue reading Former Yahoo Employee Admits Hacking into 6000 Accounts for Sexual Content
A 23-year-old Canadian man, who pleaded guilty last year for his role in helping Russian government spies hack into email accounts of Yahoo users and other services, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Karim Baratov (a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k… Continue reading Yahoo Hacker linked to Russian Intelligence Gets 5 Years in U.S. Prison
After the discovery of a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to view private Yahoo Mail images, Yahoo retired the image-processing library ImageMagick.
ImageMagick is an open-source image processing library that lets users resize, s… Continue reading 18-Byte ImageMagick Hack Could Have Leaked Images From Yahoo Mail Server
In the digital world, it just takes one click to get the keys to the kingdom.
Do you know spear-phishing was the only secret weapon behind the biggest data breach in the history?
It’s true, as one of the Yahoo employees fell victim to a simple phishing attack and clicked one wrong link that let the hackers gain a foothold in the company’s internal networks.
You may be familiar with phishing
Continue reading Yahoo! Hack! How It Took Just One-Click to Execute Biggest Data Breach in History
Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In past year, billions of accounts from popular sites and services, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace, Last.FM, Yahoo!, VK.com were exposed on the Internet.
Now, according to the… Continue reading Hacker Selling Over 1 Million Decrypted Gmail and Yahoo Passwords On Dark Web
Yahoo has just revealed that around 32 million user accounts were accessed by hackers in the last two years using a sophisticated cookie forging attack without any password.
These compromised accounts are in addition to the Yahoo accounts affected by … Continue reading Yahoo Reveals 32 Million Accounts Were Hacked Using ‘Cookie Forging Attack’
Recently Yahoo disclosed a three-year-old massive data breach in its company that exposed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts, which is said to be the largest data breach of any company ever.
The new development in Yahoo… Continue reading 1-Billion Yahoo Users’ Database Reportedly Sold For $300,000 On Dark Web
Yahoo has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Mail service that could have allowed an attacker to spy on any Yahoo user’s inbox.
Jouko Pynnönen, a Finnish Security researcher from security firm Klikki Oy, reported a DOM based persistent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) in Yahoo mail, which if exploited, allows an attacker to send emails embedded with malicious code.
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Continue reading Yahoo Flaw Allowed Hackers to Read Anyone’s Emails
Yahoo has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Mail service that could have allowed an attacker to spy on any Yahoo user’s inbox.
Jouko Pynnönen, a Finnish Security researcher from security firm Klikki Oy, reported a DOM based persistent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) in Yahoo mail, which if exploited, allows an attacker to send emails embedded with malicious code.
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Continue reading Yahoo Flaw Allowed Hackers to Read Anyone’s Emails
Yahoo! has disabled automatic email forwarding — a feature that lets its users forward a copy of incoming emails from one account to another.
The company has faced lots of bad news regarding its email service in past few weeks. Last month, the compan… Continue reading Yahoo Disables Email Auto-Forwarding; Making It Harder for Users to Move On